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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Ok Go...Ok Got It!

The other night, I was tired and intended to watch a tivo'd show and fall asleep early.

However, when I flipped on the TV, I found my husband had left it on VH1, a ridiculously vapid and addictive channel. It seems like it used to show music videos, as did MTV, which came out just when I turned into a full-fledged teen. But now, instead, it has shows that luckily explain popular culture references to me that I totally miss (now that I am allegedly so friggin' old) despite considering myself pretty frivolous and tuned into popular culture (which is clearly a very flawed belief).

Of course I had to watch...in case I knew anyone (which, actually, I didn't---not that I expected to, but I had hoped to have heard of some, at least).

I felt drowsy with about the top ten left so quickly hit the little red record button and finished up watching the show later (much later, like now, which is months later). It was mildly amusing and entertaining, required no thought, but added no value to my life---so I thought, thus far.

Then!

Then they reached #8: the OK Go video.

Now not only is that cool, but it TOTALLY cleared up an episode of Las Vegas for me. Now I get the whole Sam on the treadmill with some punky looking guys. "You know, Mary, it's not easy walking backward on a treadmill."

Whew. Sure I will sleep better at night now.

P.S. My kids cannot get enough of this video. They love love love it, and the song, and apparently Patience loves the band.

I love this video. I had sort of forgotten about it. I'll have to show it to KayTar. Her top two are "Rehab" as evidenced on my blog today, and "Hey there Delilah". I think she'll like this one, too. But I never really know with her. She definitely has her own musical tastes.

Okay the It to get is that this YouTube (video?) apparently made the circulation/rounds except to me LOL so I missed it until I caught this old rerun of a show on VH-1 and saw the Ok Go video.

I loved it but I love this kind of sound.

And I thought the video was the cleverest thing ever.

SO MUCH better than naked gyrating women (note gender limitation, apparently I am utter hypocrite who is okay with naked gyrating men).

So next day I came to watch it on YouTube with kids and we all thought it was awesome.

About time 40 the kids made me PLAY IT AGAIN MOM! I thought...huh, I remember an episode of Las Vegas where Vanessa was on a treadmill with this band. I had NO CLUE who they were. And they kept cracking jokes about treadmills that went WHOOSH over my head.

Until...seeing this video and then I put it all together.

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So, those of you who showed the kids...did they like it??

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Cathy, Jon was out of town and is just now back so I'll get back to work on coaxing him this weekend. Stay tuned. :)

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